Quotes About Integrity

I decided to plunge into the creation of Telangana. And I didn't to do it half-heartedly - didn't want people to point a finger at me and say, 'Look, another actor is using politics to get noticed.'

What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.

Colbert makes me crazy: he's so funny. Plus, he seems like an extraordinarily decent dude.

People that lie to me generally get banished or vanished to the planet Pluto in my mind.

I've been fined probably more than any driver, and I've probably paid it out of my own pocket more than any driver.

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

If you only vote with your back pocket in mind or your own best interest in mind, I believe, it is my belief that's a terrible, terrible way of thinking.

We don't take Sweet'n Lows from restaurants anymore. I don't stuff dinner rolls into my pocketbook.

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning, don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.

There's no point in saying anything but the truth.

Fashion moves so quickly that, unless you have a strong point of view, you can lose integrity.

I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper.

The Bank had never used the word 'corruption' at all until I got there, and the reason for that was, as the general counsel pointed out to me, that quite a number of our shareholders represented were not immune from corruption in their governments.

I'd never make something pointless that I don't believe in. I don't think I could do it.

I think the main thing is to continue being true to myself. I'll never do anything just to cater or pander to the audience I have. I need to be 100% behind it too. Otherwise it's completely pointless.

I'm a firm believer in karma. By doing good, good things eventually find you. I don't have an American Express Black Card, but I like to think that I would if I could fill it with karma points.

That's really my goal, is just to be a kind person who knows how to speak their mind and get their points across.

It's not a bad idea to have gossip and talking points in athletics.

My Democratic colleagues, many of whom hold law degrees, should know better than to intentionally oversimplify court rulings to mislead the public and score political points.

I am not a saint, and neither do I claim to walk on water.

No one will ever say Dwight Clark was selfish.